Compare And Contrast A Woman Who Went To Alaska

There are fifty states that make up the entirety of The United Staes of America. With so many areas differating immensely from one another in population, and climate, and attractions, there is bound to be somewhere, and something that appeals to everyone. The opposite is also true. I, personally, prefer cooler weather, darker atmospheres, and a lower population. The best place in the United States that happens to best meet all of those qualifications, is the northernmost state of Alaska. On the contrary, I prefer to steer clear of humid areas, with larger population densities, and more dangerous, or vexatious creatures. That being said, the number one state that I tend to avoid when possible is Florida.

Although there were several gold rushes, including one in the south, the one thing which makes the California gold rush stand out from the other is the large amount of writing which was produced by not only the California gold seekers but their wives and family members they left back on the east coast. For many of the men who dreamed of going to California, a lot of the literature pieces around this time offered a way out of the “impasse between respectability and the marketplace” (Roberts, pg. 52). The writings had major effects on the American middle class and people were learning important lessons. Several of the lessons from these writings is that “polite culture had its limitations, and nature, or the West, was a utopian space in which one could escape the stiffness of bourgeois respectability” (Roberts, pg. 60). What this means is that by the 1840's many of the men believed that their bodies were becoming softer due to the acquisition of table manners and parlor etiquette. The marketplace was becoming harsher and it required strength, not manners. The average miner had a family, a mother, a sister, a wife, or a mistress that he wrote to while he was in California. The letters exchanged between the men on the West and the women in the East would

The daily life of a miner was far from perfect. The way the papers and other means of propaganda had portrayed getting rich quick, but it was far from easy. All the equipment that was needed to start out as a miner was for the most part outrageous. The earning wages from gold was” sixteen dollars an ounce” pg.8. Even so, the work was backbreaking. There was swarms of minors trying to get rich quick. To many miners that traveled to get a piece of the precious metal they where resorted to taking land from previous land owner just to get ahead in the Gold Rush. Not to mention that the living conditions where also outrageous. The “rentals of hotels and other business structures, whether of boards or of canvas, reached even dizzier heights than did commodity prices” pg.8. This spaces where set prices at 3,000 dollars a month or 40,000 dollars for a year, there was also other prices around the area of San Francisco. And in some cases miners where resorted to living in a room filled to the brim with other miners. This lead to very poor conditions for any one to live in. But nothing was better then being rich in a few months or

In the article “The Klondike Gold Rush,” it explains how miners from all across the land traveled to get to the gold rush. The two main paths to travel were by boat or by trail, the harder of the two was the trail because it was long and required going up a steep mountain. The article tells the reader of how people would be carrying hundreds of pounds going up the mountain, but then dropping most of their items on the side of the trail because they couldn't carry the weight. The point of view in this article gave us the idea that the journey was long and laborious.

Have you ever thought about being rich? How about finding gold where you least expected it to be? In the passages “Klondike Gold Rush” and A Woman Who Went to Alaska and City of Gold each author or narrator discusses the same topic which was that people went out on a challenging trip to find gold, but only some people were successful. In the two passages and the one video the authors or narrator were using different points of views. Each person’s point of view shapes the reader's understanding of the miners’ lives is because each person has there own situation, so they have to act and talk differently than some of the other characters.

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Alaska is a land of special places, special moments, and special people. Alaska is a land of rare beauty and big distances. Alaska is so rich in natural resources. Alaska is one of the few great expanses of natural land left in the country. Alaska is so big, it covers several climatic and geographical regions.

Two Articles that are named, “Klondike Gold Rush”, and “ A Woman Who Went to Alaska” both talk about how the lives of miners all around the world are hard and unfair. But they make that topic clear through different viewpoints. “Klondike Gold Rush” talks about the lives of miners through an article. It gets the statement that the klondike Gold rush was one of the hardest working, and one of the biggest bust for miners.

Far from the feast, the large Nu mountains homed creatures both feared and hunted for game.

Eleanor Roosevelt, the American politician, diplomat, and activist, once wrote “You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. ' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” Discovering one’s individuality, finding oneself, is a discovery that is found through the journey of life. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and Looking for Alaska by John Green reveals protagonists on journeys of self-discovery. These journeys show each character recognizing this self-discovery with a symbol that portrays themselves and their environments while they experience a loss in life which strengthens their character.

Looking for Alaska and It’s kind of a funny story both deal with topics most people would try to avoid, or not talk about. Most of the topics or themes are not that extreme, most of them are things that go on in everyday life for teenagers, in the past and in the modern world. For Looking for Alaska alcohol was a big topic discussed in the novel, The teenagers at Culver Creek drink A lot, But the y don’t just drink for fun, and most of the time it’s innocent use, alcohol in Looking for Alaska is usually goes with trying to break some sort of rules. For Miles drinking was his way of being socially accepted, for the colonel drinking was his way of mourning, but in Alaska’s case alcohol was a way to cope with and soften the pain and guilt that

Being raised in the south is just one of the many things that Kathryn Kirkland, 18, believes to be important. Being born and raised in the small Florida town called Floral City Kathryn can recollect her childhood very well expressing that it was “an interesting one.” In the small town of Floral City Kathryn says that everyone knows everyone, so the group of friends was tight knit. She can recall one vivid memory she says sharing with us that “When my friends and I in Floral City decided that we were going to make a tree house. It took us a few weeks to actually finish the tree house but by the time we were done it was actually pretty nice. We used all scrap pieces of wood and whatever else we could find. It wasn’t the prettiest thing but we

What if you were a renowned flyer and disappeared on your trip around the world? Suppose you just vanished from thin air during the trip, leaving everything behind? What if the whole world was searching for you? Amelia Earhart, a woman flyer, or otherwise known as Lady Lindy, was in her late 30’s when this happened to her. She took off on her flight, not knowing she would leave everything behind. Amelia Earhart had an interesting life and had many achievements right before she vanished on her trip around the world in July, 1937.

We are here! My family and I are at Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska!! I hope that we are able to go kayaking because I hear that that is super fun. I am so excited to be going to the park that was established on December 2, 1980. Another thing that I hoping to see at the park is orca whales, one of the many animals that I have heard that are at the park. Since we are only here for a couple of days, I hope to see as much as I can of the 607,000 acres of land. Right now we are going to go on a hike. So far I have seen a mountain goat, squirrels, and a moose. Tomorrow we are going to go on a boat tour. We were told that it was going to be cold, so we were to dress warm.

My first exposer to Alaskan culture was in elementary school with many native Athabascan tales. Since Anchorage is rich in diversity, I have been exposed to many of the cultures that live in Alaska, not just native Alaskans. To have this level of diversity is so unique and one of the best elements of our community. Academically, I have already completed Alaska Studies and am currently taking Natural Recourse Management to better understand Alaska’s history, geography and the industries that changed the economic development of our state.